*Insert Peter Griffin laugh
A hot dog a day keeps the doctors employed.
tastes like cat food
tar -xvzf blahaj.tar.gz
cd blahaj/
./configure
make
sudo make install
Now enjoy your Blahaj. (although depending on your system you may need to install dependencies after configuration. Blahaj is dependent on love, kindess, and affection.)
Right, socialism doesn't necessarily say that markets themselves are evil, but rather that the workers should have direct control over their own workplaces and reap the value of their labor instead of being siphoned off to a parasite class. A socialist business owned by the workers would still be selling their goods in the marketplace. It's just a fairer distribution of control of the company through democracy and a fairer distribution of the value generated by the labor.
As I often say, it's not like Jeff Bezos can deliver every Amazon package or manage every AWS server on his own. No, the value he has is leeched from all the workers who make his business function. Without the workers, he is effectively useless on his own.
But it feels like we're regressing and we can't even get to that socialist ideal because we're busy fighting for the basic rules of capitalism that produce an actually healthy economy where everyone is involved be followed.
We have come so far that we have gone from "maybe the world should be a better place" to "if we are really going to do this capitalism shit, could we at least follow the fundamental foundational concepts instead of a corporate free-for-all where the rules of the game have been tossed out?"
But seriously this is tragic as hell for all the people losing their jobs and seeing all the work they did on the game go up in a puff of smoke.
Technically "less."
It's rooted in all that "American Exceptionalism" propaganda crap, for sure.
In classic conservative fashion, Bush shows that he only cares insofar as it impacted a program he considered part of his "legacy."
He doesn't care who else gets hurt, he cares that his "legacy" is tarnished.
He's absolutely fine with anything else Trump does, because none of it affects him directly, but he has to speak out when his own pet project got shitcanned.
This is not meant in any way to diminish the good Bush's USAID programs did. It's just clear that this is the only reason he cares about it.
I mean I always stay home because I'm an introvert, but yeah, mirroring what other's have already said in this thread, I haven't had much to feel patriotic about since at least the Dubya Bush years. So probably more than 20 years of not feeling it.
Bullshit it's good, it's a farce to make the "middle" somewhere between the right wing Democrats and the ultra right wing unhinged fascists of the Republicans.
None of them are going "Damn we shoulda listened to Sanders."
They've learned fuck-all.